Section 6217.3 - Appropriation for coastal salmon and steelhead fishery restoration projects(a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:(1) The Safe Drinking Water, Water Quality and Supply, Flood Control, River and Coastal Protection Bond Act of 2006, an initiative approved by the voters at the November 7, 2006, statewide general election, makes available the sum of one hundred eighty million dollars ($180,000,000) in bond funds for bay-delta and coastal fishery restoration projects.(2) Of the funds made available, up to forty-five million dollars ($45,000,000) is available for coastal salmon and steelhead fishery restoration projects that support the development and implementation of species recovery plans and strategies for salmonid species listed as threatened or endangered under state or federal law.(b) From the forty-five million dollars ($45,000,000) available for coastal salmon and steelhead fishery restoration projects pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 75050, five million two hundred ninety-three thousand dollars ($5,293,000) is appropriated to the Department of Fish and Game for the purposes of coastal salmon and steelhead fishery restoration projects, including the Coastal Salmonid Monitoring Plan. The Department of Fish and Game shall not allocate more than two million five hundred twenty thousand dollars ($2,520,000) of these funds for the Coastal Salmonid Monitoring Plan.(c)(1) Except for the funds annually appropriated for the Coastal Salmonid Monitoring Plan, and as provided in paragraph (3), the process governing the expenditure of funds described in Section 6217.1 shall be applied to the expenditure of funds available for coastal salmon and steelhead fishery restoration projects pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 75050 that are allocated by the Department of Fish and Game pursuant to subdivision (b).(2) The funds annually allocated to the Coastal Salmonid Monitoring Plan are exempt from the requirements of Section 6217.1.(3) If there is a conflict between a provision of this section and a provision of Division 43 (commencing with Section 75001), the provision of Division 43 shall govern.Ca. Pub. Res. Code § 6217.3
Amended by Stats 2008 ch 760 (AB 1338),s 15, eff. 9/30/2008.Added by Stats 2008 ch 4 (SB 562),s 1, eff. 4/11/2008.